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Videoob

Videoob is a console application (part of Weboob) to search videos on supported websites (see CapVideo) and to get direct URLs for videos or play them.

Get Videoob

This application is a part of Weboob. Download it and install it with:

$ ./setup.py install

For more information about installation of Weboob read this page.

Usage

You can run videoob without any parameter to get an interactive prompt, or specify a command to run it directly and exit just after.

In this page we will use the interactive mode:

$ videoob
Welcome to videoob

Copyright(C) 2010 Christophe Benz, Romain Bignon, John Obbele
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

Type "help" to display available commands.

Loaded backends: arte, ina, youjizz, youporn, youtube, dailymotion

videoob>

Use the help command to see what are available commands.

The first time you launch videoob, it will ask you what backends you want to add and configure. You can also use the backends command to manage them, and to enable only specific backends.

To get more information about advanced usage of videoob, see the console applications common options.

Looking for a video

Usage:

videoob> search PATTERN

Example:

videoob> search coluche flics
Search pattern: coluche flics
* (1) Coluche - Les Flics (youtube)
            0:07:57
* (2) Coluche Intégral CD 1 - 12 / Le flic (youtube)
            0:08:10
* (3) Coluche le flic (youtube)
            0:11:33
* (4) COLUCHE L'INTEGRAL - Le flic.mov (youtube)
            0:08:10
* (5) Coluche - C'est l'histoire d'un mec (youtube)
            0:10:35
* (6) Beaucoup de flics pour rien.wmv (youtube)
            0:06:35
* (7) Pinot simple flic pour Cortex - Zen for Z'anes (youtube)
            0:04:10
* (8) A 2 pas du Perih - Sinik (youtube)
            0:02:58
videoob>

Get information about a video

Usage:

videoob> info <# or ID or URL>

For example, you can use the number of the previous search results:

videoob> info 1
id: 6Cvj6NRpTXo@youtube
title: Coluche - Les Flics
url: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=6Cvj6NRpTXo&t=vjVQa1PpcFPjKzpoPFHRI3oAtjzNxmC5NkNYPQ2R6jg%3D&eurl=&el=&ps=&asv=&fmt=18
author: Melaaz
duration: 0:07:57
thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Cvj6NRpTXo/2.jpg
nsfw: False

You can also use in these forms:

videoob> info "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXb8V_8l41w"
videoob> info JXb8V_8l41w@youtube

Play a video

You can also play a video by using the command play instead of info:

videoob> play 1
Invoking "mplayer http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=6Cvj6NRpTXo&t=vjVQa1PpcFPjKzpoPFHRI3oAtjzNxmC5NkNYPQ2R6jg%3D&eurl=&el=&ps=&asv=&fmt=18".
[...]
videoob>

Download a video

If you want to download a video, just use the download command:

videoob> download 1
[...]

It's possible to give the filename of video:

$ videoob download 9892834@dailymotion video.mp4
--2011-03-21 15:47:36--  http://www.dailymotion.com/cdn/H264-512x384/video/x5w1cy_bassist_music.mp4?auth=1300891656-7e55974c5de78f52843324636480ff96
Resolving www.dailymotion.com... 195.8.215.137, 195.8.215.138, 195.8.215.136
Connecting to www.dailymotion.com|195.8.215.137|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://proxy-61.dailymotion.com/video/438/298/9892834_mp4_h264_aac.mp4?auth=1300726056-32528c09733568744a9010672425da55&cache=0 [following]
--2011-03-21 15:47:36--  http://proxy-61.dailymotion.com/video/438/298/9892834_mp4_h264_aac.mp4?auth=1300726056-32528c09733568744a9010672425da55&cache=0
Resolving proxy-61.dailymotion.com... 195.8.214.61
Connecting to proxy-61.dailymotion.com|195.8.214.61|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 764225 (746K) [video/mp4]
Saving to: “video.mp4”

100%[====================================================================>] 764,225     2.45M/s   in 0.3s

2011-03-21 15:47:36 (2.45 MB/s) - “video.mp4” saved [764225/764225]

Tip for rxvt-unicode users

You can use this config lines to make rxvt-unicode launch urls in videoob instead of browser :

urxvt.matcher.pattern.1: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youtube\\.com/watch\\?v=([^&]*)
urxvt.matcher.launcher.1: videoob play $1@youtube
urxvt.matcher.pattern.2: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youporn\\.com/watch/([^/]*)
urxvt.matcher.launcher.2: videoob play $1@youporn
urxvt.matcher.pattern.3: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?canalplus.fr/.*vid=([^&]*)
urxvt.matcher.launcher.3: videoob play $1@canalplus
urxvt.matcher.pattern.4: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?videos\\.arte\\.tv/.*/([^.]*)\\.html
urxvt.matcher.launcher.4: videoob play $1@arte
urxvt.matcher.pattern.5: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?ina.fr/(.*)/video/(.*)\\.html
urxvt.matcher.launcher.5: videoob play $1\/$2@ina
urxvt.matcher.pattern.6: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youjizz\\.com/.*/([^.]*)\\.html
urxvt.matcher.launcher.6: videoob play $1@youjizz

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